Kysa Meredith Crusco

Kysa was great from the beginning until the end. I called her and she called back in a short amount of time, we scheduled a time to call and went over my situation and she did give me free advise. I chose to hire her. Every time I had a question she was very quick with getting back to me and answ...ered my questions in a professional manner. She always kept me informed with what the plan was and always made sure I was satisfied with the action that was taken. I highly recommend her to anyone in need of a family divorce lawyer who knows what they are doing I really am thankful to kysa and her entire team for handling my case in very short time in a very good manner. She is very professional,and she is very knowledgeable with the system and she over all does an excellent job. I will for sure be contacting her for any future difficulties. She is detail oriented and is very professional and kept communication with me throughout the process and kysa let me know upfront if the path I was planning to take would or wouldn’t work which helped me stay grounded. Personally, I wish no one have to go through the painful process of divorce that I went through. To be honest, I found her name on-line when I was looking for an attorney to represent me - and I could not be more happy that I chose her as my attorney. She is experienced, extremely knowledgeable and very well-respected in all areas that she practices. She is hard-working and was never too busy to personally take my calls and answer any questions I might have. Just as important, she was able to secure extremely positive personal results for me in my case. I was always kept up to date on the status of my case - she is very worthy of the highest overall ratings I have given!! If you need competent, compassionate, professional and results-oriented legal representation now or in the future, please do not hesitate to call Kysa Crusco I guarantee that you will be glad you did. I have no regrets Kysa is best Attorney in New Hampshire and can Handle big challenging cases , Kysa will be the one attorney I can say will be fight until your satisfied.

I was a client of Kysa’s for approximately a month. I can objectively state that I became increasingly disappointed with my interactions with Kysa (or, specifically, the lack thereof) the longer I retained her as counsel regarding modifying my comparatively straightforward pre-existing parenting agre...ement. During our initial consultation, I found her to be both accommodating and knowledgeable; however, as I worked to prepare for the first mediation session that was rapidly approaching, communication from Kysa and her staff rapidly dissolved. Logic states the closer one gets to his/her mediation date and the more topics that have yet to be reviewed and discussed, there exists an ever-increasing need to have both some sort of acknowledgement as well as guidance from your attorney. I sent numerous emails over the span of days, as well as follow up emails (to make sure they were being received), and multiple times it was not until I called her office that I was informed my email had been received. In the end, even after pushing for responses, I had no other choice other than to seek different council. After ending my client-attorney relationship with Kysa in writing, I can factually state she continued to review documents that I had asked her not to, claiming she did not see said request of termination until a later date. She subsequently billed me in full for these reviews, and refused to provide any thoughts/output/product of said review. All of this money was deducted from my retainer. After receiving my last bill I was left with a very small portion of my retainer, mostly due to these reviews that took place after I formally requested to terminate our professional relationship. Initially, I was told that this retainer would be enough to cover all communication with her, review of my documents and for her to attend a 2 hour mediation session with me; when I received what was left of this retainer (I still, to this date, have not received any product of her reviews, nor did she attend any Court hearings or mediation sessions with me), there was not even enough to cover a single mediation session. I related all of my concerns, in the form of written feedback, to her and her office, basically to provide constructive criticism in regards to my experience, as well as to have some of my concerns addressed. I also asked for the product of the work that I was billed for (and did not receive any output from). I did not receive even so much as a phone call or email back from her, which aligns with my experience with her at that point (and the reason I felt it necessary to retain different counsel). I cannot recommend Kysa in good conscience to anyone looking for a family law attorney. I am extremely grateful that I decided to retain different counsel when I did; proper communication and feedback with my new attorney has ensured that mediation has gone as smoothly as possible.

Attorney Crusco talked a good game during the initial consultation, but turned out to be worse than having no attorney at all. After doing little to prepare my divorce case, she showed up to the first mediation session and sat mum while the opposing attorney suggested that my children would be better... off with my spouse having more than half time with them--after a long time with equal parenting (but with me providing more emotional and academic support for both children), and after my spouse had hit my older child, called my older child names causing him to be depressed with thoughts of self-harm, etc. I was forced at that session to argue against the other attorney myself, while Attorney Crusco repeatedly suggested to me that I meet the other attorney halfway. I was filled with misgivings after this mediation at her apparent lack of interest in my children's well-being and her sandbagging of my position, when I feel a more proper response would have been a harder line and a firmer bargaining position. At the next mediation session, things got worse. Within a short time Attorney Crusco had alienated my spouse to the point that my spouse threatened to leave mediation, and Attorney Crusco showed a lack of preparation for the mediation session as well. Nothing at all was accomplished at either mediation session, but I was later billed thousands, when the mediation sessions had only lasted for five to six hours. Following the second mediation, Attorney Crusco promised to draft a settlement offer letter, but failed to do so after an extended wait time; she promised to send the draft to me by a certain Friday, then left for personal leave for a week, and when she returned still took too much time to get a simple letter together. Then, when I asked for certain protections to be added to the letter she disregarded requests some of the time--seeming not to even read them--and drafted language which didn't protect me well at all. When I repeatedly asked that my concerns be addressed, she finally stated that she had drafted the letter and didn't intend in the end to put in my requested changes--and that I'd better approve her version of the letter if I wanted it sent. In the end, I couldn't put up with Attorney Crusco's non-performance and lack of proper attention to my case, so I was forced to fire her.